Enrollment
369
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 3·NCES 080648001128
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts
509 WIDEFIELD DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911 · (719) 391-3335 · El Paso County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL369 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Colorado public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
199 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.0%
CO avg 44.9% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
45.3%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 45.3% |
| 2023-24 | 54.6% | 42.5% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Colorado's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Widefield Elementary School of the Arts
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widefield Elementary School of the Arts this school | 369 | 53.9% | 47.5% |
| Rudy Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 385 | 53.8% | 48.6% |
| Colorado Springs Charter Academy COLORADO SPRINGS | 295 | 50.2% | 27.0% |
| South Lakewood Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 393 | 54.5% | 38.0% |
| Talbott STEAM Innovation School COLORADO SPRINGS | 324 | 59.6% | 47.2% |
| Odyssey Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 378 | 62.2% | 34.7% |
Matched among Colorado elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Widefield Elementary School of the Arts ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #335 of 931 | #42 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #335 of 940 ▲ 16 | #44 of 126 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #372 of 946 ▼ 84 | #48 of 127 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 369 | #514 of 1,056 | #59 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #232 of 896 | #45 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #97 of 896 | #35 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.9% | #432 of 983 | #52 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #538 of 664 | #82 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
369
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 318
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 369 | 26.3 | 14.1:1 | 54% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 352 | 26.6 | 13.2:1 | 58% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 26.7 | 13.3:1 | 41% (146) |
| 2020-21 | 372 | 31 | 12.0:1 | 54% (201) |
| 2017-18 | 398 | 26.4 | 15.1:1 | 55% (219) |
| 2015-16 | 401 | 28 | 14.3:1 | 55% (222) |
| 2010-11 | 370 | 23 | 16.1:1 | 51% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 403 | 23 | 17.5:1 | 28% (112) |
| 1990-91 | 318 | 17 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Widefield Elementary School of the Arts.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (398 to 369); teachers down 1% (26.4 to 26.3).
About Widefield Elementary School of the Arts
Federal records list Widefield Elementary School of the Arts as an elementary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It educates 369 students in kindergarten through 5.
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts belongs to Widefield School District 3, a district of 18 schools and 9,290 students.
White students are the largest group at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts, with 45% of enrollment. Next come 35% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 7% Black. The county population is about 70% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
Staffing totals 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1. That ratio is under the 16.6:1 average for elementary schools in Colorado. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is 54%. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in El Paso County, the school's rate is higher.
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of Colorado public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is 34.0%. It actually posts 47.5%, which is 13.5 points higher and in the top 10% of Colorado schools.
In the county around the school, El Paso County, median household income is about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is among the 245 public schools in El Paso County.
Widefield High School is the public school closest to Widefield Elementary School of the Arts, about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is 1st of 6 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 369, starting from 372. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.0:1 to 14.1:1.
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El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Widefield School District 3
- Mesa Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,304 students
- Widefield High SchoolHigh · 1,193 students
- Grand Mountain SchoolElementary · 1,044 students
- Janitell Junior High SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Webster Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Sunrise Elementary SchoolElementary · 506 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Nearby schools
- Widefield High School0.1 mi · 1,193
- Discovery High School0.2 mi · 83
- Widefield District 3 Preschool0.8 mi · 379
- Venetucci Elementary School0.9 mi · 272
- Sproul Junior High School1.0 mi · 504
- The Haven School1.0 mi · 240
Frequently asked questions
About Widefield Elementary School of the ArtsWhat is the total enrollment at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts?
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts enrolls approximately 369 students in grades KG-05.
Is Widefield Elementary School of the Arts an elementary, middle, or high school?
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is approximately 14.1:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Widefield Elementary School of the Arts?
At Widefield Elementary School of the Arts, the student body is approximately 45% White, 35% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Widefield Elementary School of the Arts public or private?
Widefield Elementary School of the Arts is a public K-12 school, overseen by Widefield School District 3.
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